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  • Journal of a Trip to California

    Across the Continent from Weston, Mo., to Weber Creek, Cal., in the Summer of 1850

    by Charles W. Smith ...
    In "Journal of a Trip to California," Charles W. Smith offers a compelling and meticulously detailed account of his travels to the Golden State during a pivotal moment in American history. Written in a vivid, descriptive prose that captures both the grandeur of the Californian landscape and the peculiarities of its burgeoning society, this journal serves not only as a travelogue but also as a ... Read more

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  • Unions in Court

    Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

    by Charles W. Smith, Larry Savage ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike. But how did the labour movement, historically hostile to judicial intervention in labour relations, come to embrace legal activism as a first line of defense as opposed to a last resort? Unions in Court ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Roger B. Taney

    Jacksonian Jurist

    by Charles W. Smith ...
    Smith describes the political ideas of Chief Justice Taney and discusses his contributions to American constitutional law. Taney is revealed as a socially minded jurist who believed in the power of the whole people to regulate the affairs of life for the common good. As a political leader, Taney belongs in the democratic line that runs from Jefferson to Franklin D. Roosevelt; as a jurist he is a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Transforming Provincial Politics

    The Political Economy of Canada's Provinces and Territories in the Neoliberal Era

    Edited by Charles W Smith, Bryan M. Evans ...
    Over the past thirty-five years, Canada’s provinces and territories have undergone significant political changes. Abandoning mid-century Keynesian policies, governments of all political persuasions have turned to deregulation, tax reduction, and government downsizing as policy solutions for a wide range of social and economic issues. Transforming Provincial Politics is the first province-by ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

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  • A Summer on the Plains, Illustrated.

    by Theodore R Davis ...
    An Eastern Correspondent spends the summer on duty with Hancock's 1867 Indian Expedition, following Hancock and Custer as they attempt to make peace with the warring Indians on the plains. Good examples of real life in the Indian Wars. ... Read more

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  • Best of Covered Wagon Women

    by Kenneth L. Holmes ...
    The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand accounts are among the best ever written. They were selected for the power with which they portray the hardship, adventure, and boundless love for friends and family that characterized the overland ... Read more

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  • Cheadle's Journal of Trip Across Canada

    1862-1863

    by Walter Cheadle ...
    Walter B. Cheadle’s diary tells his incredible story of travelling with Lord Milton, as they journeyed along the uncharted Yellowhead route in 1862–63. A miraculously successful expedition, the men traversed the continent, making their way from Quebec, through Saskatchewan, Alberta, up the Athabasca River, risking their lives opening the trails through the Canadian Rockies, and eventually arriving ... Read more

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  • Captives Among the Indians

    by Francesco Giuseppe Bressani, Massy Harbison, Mary White Rowlandson, James Smith ...
    "Captives Among the Indians" is a compelling narrative that explores the harrowing experiences of individuals taken captive by Native American tribes during the colonial period. The accounts of figures like Mary White Rowlandson and James Smith provide a vivid portrayal of their struggles, resilience, and the complex relationships formed between captives and their captors. Through their stories, ... Read more

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  • Exploring Canada for a Transcontinental Railroad

    by John Bonner ...
    This  short piece describes the trip through the wilderness with Indian guides along the route of the as yet unbuilt Canadian railway to the pacific. Illustrated. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • My Captivity

    A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux

    by Fanny Kelly ...
    Fanny Kelly’s memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy toward her captors, but the introduction points out examples of expressed favor toward the Sioux, however unconscious. This narrative is a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The United States Exploration Anthology

    The Personal Accounts of the Great Explorers of the Continental United States

    by John Abbott, David Thompson, Meriwether Lewis ...
    Series series Bybliotech Discovery
    The United States Exploration Anthology features texts from (or about) Daniel Boone, David Thompson, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike and Colonel John C Fremont. It also contains a wealth of pictures, photographs maps and diagrams pertaining to each of the 5 books included in this huge volume.The Anthology tells the tale of the journeys of discovery and exploration of the continental United States by ... Read more

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